, 1887-08-04
Arranging for a Branch of an
English Gun Factory.
A Heavy Falling off i'm the Usual
Salmon Catch.
Southern Pacific Swallows An.
other California Railroad.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
WASHINGTON, July 29.--The reve-
nues of this month amount to over
100000. Expenditures during the
same time, including Sl1 100000 paid
for pensions, amount to about T25,-
100000. Treasurer Hyatt reports sur
plus to-day rs $40, 100000, an increase
of nearly $G,O00,000 since the same
date OF last month.
BEFORE THE COMMISSION.
In the case OF w. ii. Heard, the
colored man who complained to the
interstate commission against the
Georgia Railroad company that he
was refused frst-class accommoda-
tions and compelled to ride in jim
Crow car, respondent demurs to the
complaint of the petition upon various
grounds, questions the Jurisdiction
of the commission and proceeds
to answer the complaint at length.
1t sets forth that it knows of no such
car us "Jim Grow" cars, and avows
that the cars provided for colored peo-
pie are equally safe comfortable,
clean and well ventilated as those pro-
vided for whites. The difference, it
says, il any, relates to matters estheti-
cal only and consist in higher orna-
mentation, etc.
THE ATLANTA.
Secretary Whitney has received
report from Captain BunCo command
ing the steamer Atlanta, regarding her
accidental grounding off Newport
Tuesday during fog, Captain Bunco
says no injury was done to the vessel
with the possible exception of having
broken piece off the end of the tenn
porary cast iron propeller blade. She
proceeded to sea the next day and the
battery was tested to the satisfaction
of the inspection board. Authorities
at the navy department say that moth
ing has been received from the board,
and they are unable to say whether
the test of the battery proved it to be
serviceable or not, though the impress
sion drawn from previous reports is
that it must have been otherwise.
GUN FACTORY.
Secretary Whitney announces that
negotiations which have been pend.
ing for month between the navy de-
partment and the Hotchkiss Ord
nance Co., have eliminated in a con-
tract the effect of which will be the
establishment of branch factory for
the manufactory of the Hotchkiss
guns in this country. "Our second
AIRY militares," the secretary said to-
day, "have heretofore been made
abroad and the creation of an estab-
lishment for their manufactory in this
country will mark another important
~,
company's investigations have elected
the fact that taking the superiority Of
American machinery into consdera-
ton, guns might be made as cheaply
here rs abroad. 1t was II matter of
necessity with us, either to set up II
mandatory of our own or get the
Hotchkiss company to come here
since we can no longer afford to be
dependent on other countries for our
war material" With the Bethlehem
Iron Company contract and
this one, it is expected that
American shipbuilders will be
able to build and arm war ships
entirely from American manufactures.
PENSION DENIED.
The secretary of the interior to-day
denied the claim of VIM. Hedgepeth,
ex-private, Forty-second Indiana, for
IL pension. Hedgepeth was captured
in 1868 and sent to AndersonVllle.
After five months he enlisted in the
confederate army for the purpose, as
he told some fellow-prisoner, OF desert
ing on the first chance and getting
back to his old regiment. Some years
ago he applied for pension on the
ground OF disability incurred in the
federal service. The law provides that
no one who aided directly or indirectly
the enemies of the government should
have pension. Hedgepeths brief
connection with the confederacy rem
dered him amenable to this law. The
case has been pending long time,
and many opinions have been written
on 1T. 1t reached the secretary to-day.
The papers in the case included
strong protest against the payment of
the pension from Commissioner
Black.
President Platt, OF the United States
Express Company notifies the inter
state commerce commission that the
company will soon present reasons
why it conceives that express COM
panies are not subject to the inter
state law General Manager Trejo, of
the Baltimore & Ohio, says his COM
pany believes itself subject to the pro-
visions of the act. General Manager
Chanteler, of the Erie Express com
pany, forms like opinion and SAYS
his company is preparing schedule.
The salmon Trade.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.--The sal
man pack on the Columbia river is
running very short and Change the